{"id":12463,"date":"2011-07-12T14:54:24","date_gmt":"2011-07-12T21:54:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/?p=12463"},"modified":"2011-07-12T14:54:24","modified_gmt":"2011-07-12T21:54:24","slug":"koenig-shatner-was-no-patrick-stewart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/2011\/07\/koenig-shatner-was-no-patrick-stewart\/","title":{"rendered":"Koenig: Shatner Was No Patrick Stewart"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Even though one might have assumed that the hatchet was buried when <strong>Walter Koenig<\/strong> appeared on <em>Shatner&#8217;s Raw Nerve<\/em> earlier this year, Koenig is still not a fan of <strong>William Shatner<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"http:\/\/trekmovie.com\/2011\/07\/10\/london-comic-con-report-photos-walter-koenig-on-shatner-brent-spiner-on-datas-death\/\">TrekMovie.com<\/a>, while speaking to an audience at the London Comic Con held last weekend, Koenig revealed his lingering bitterness towards his fellow actor.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/WalterKoenig082510.gif\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-12464\" title=\"WalterKoenig082510\" src=\"http:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/WalterKoenig082510.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>When asked if his appearance on <em>Shatner&#8217;s Raw Nerve<\/em> had helped to heal the wounds of the past, Koenig said, &#8220;No, not really.&#8221; He went on to explain though that Shatner had been &#8220;very generous&#8221; and &#8220;in my old age, I&#8217;d like to think that [his invitation to appear on the show to talk things out] had been genuine.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Koenig explained that Shatner &#8220;just never got it,&#8221; when it came to the animosity he raised in Koenig, <strong>James Doohan<\/strong> and <strong>George Takei<\/strong>. &#8220;Bill wasn&#8217;t <strong>Patrick Stewart<\/strong>,&#8221; Koenig explained to the audience. &#8220;We never had the respect for our captain the way the <em>TNG<\/em> crew had theirs.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Even though one might have assumed that the hatchet was buried when Walter Koenig appeared&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2413,2421],"tags":[3711,2589,2414],"class_list":["post-12463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cast-crew","category-star-trek-tos","tag-feud","tag-koenig","tag-shatner"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":"","thumbnail":"","medium":"","medium_large":"","large":"","1536x1536":"","2048x2048":"","newsphere-slider-full":"","newsphere-featured":"","newsphere-medium":""},"author_info":{"display_name":"T&#39;Bonz","author_link":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/author\/tbonz\/"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/categories\/cast-crew\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Cast &amp; Crew<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/categories\/star-trek-tos\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Star Trek: TOS<\/a>","tag_info":"Star Trek: TOS","comment_count":"13","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12463","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12463"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12463\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12466,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12463\/revisions\/12466"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}